Calculate Child Support Payments in Louisiana

The calculator below will estimate your monthly child support payment based on Louisiana's child support guidelines.

To use the child support calculator, select or enter the appropriate information next to each statement.

When you have completed the form, click on the calculate button to get an estimate of the amount of child support that the non-custodial parent will have to pay to the custodial parent in Louisiana.

Louisiana Child Support

In Louisiana, child support
cases are generally divided into three categories: intake, collections,
or parent locate. Through Support Enforcement Services (SES), a
division of the Office of Family Support, you can receive assistance in
locating a non-custodial parent, ordering a paternity test,
establishing a child support order, and enforcing child support
orders. Following is a breakdown of some of the services that SES
offers:

Locating non-custodial parents
In order to establish a child support order, the SES must know the
whereabouts of the non-custodial parent. The SES can help locate a
missing parent and/or obtain past due child support through many
different resources. These include:

The Federal Parent Locator Service: this database provides
information on parents receiving social security benefits,
veteran’s pensions, and those working for the Federal government.

Electronic Parent Locator Network: this resource pools
information that makes it possible to search for absent parents
throughout the United States.

U.S. Treasury Department: for a fee – and if you are
eligible – you can obtain a full service Internal Revenue Service
collection which can help you collect past due child support.

Establishing a support order
Children are legally entitled to financial support from both parents.
The courts set the guidelines for determining how much money is
required from the non-custodial parent to support his or her child/ren.
These guidelines depend on a number of different factors, including:

Number of children in the household

The income of both parents

Child care costs

Cost of health insurance

A provision for miscellaneous expenses

Enforcing a child support order
SES can help enforce support orders if the non-custodial parent is
not meeting his or her financial obligations. By income assignment,
intercepting state and federal tax refunds and lottery winnings,
suspending licenses and registration, denying passports, and requesting
a contempt of court charge, the SES can penalize—and attempt to
collect payment from—delinquent non-custodial parents.

Disclaimer: Please remember that these calculators are for informational and
educational purposes only.

The amount of child support a court will order
for any particular case may be different from the amount estimated by the
calculator.
For the most part, these calculators assume that all of the
children at issue will primarily live with one parent. They are not intended
to estimate child support for joint physical custody or split custody
arrangements.
These calculators do not take into account any possible
adjustments for children who are not subject to the custody order, but who are
living with one of the parents. Finally, these calculators may be based on
older or outdated state guidelines or calculations and may not take into
consideration state or federal tax implications on income.
These
and many other factors can affect a child support order entered by a court.

Louisiana Child Support Calculator

Number of children who are the subject of the pending action:*

Gross Monthly Income of Non-Custodial Parent:*

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Amount of monthly child support paid for children from a prior marriage by Non-Custodial Parent:*

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Amount of monthly alimony paid to a spouse from a prior marriage by Non-Custodial Parent:*

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Monthly Cost of daycare paid by Non-Custodial Parent:*

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Monthly cost of family group health insurance paid by Non-Custodial Parent:*

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Gross Monthly Income of Custodial Parent:*

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Amount of monthly child support paid for children from a prior marriage by Custodial Parent:*

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Amount of monthly alimony paid to a spouse from a prior marriage by Custodial Parent:*

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Monthly cost of daycare paid by Custodial Parent:*

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Monthly cost of family group health insurance paid by Custodial Parent:*